ARCTICA-GREETER(1)

✨ ARCTICA-GREETER ✨

okay bestie, pull up a chair, we're talking about arctica-greeter — the manual page, section 1, and it's literally the LightDM greeter for the modern desktop 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

arctica-greeter — a LightDM greeter for the modern desktop. that's the whole vibe, she's a greeter, she's modern, she's serving 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

arctica-greeter [ OPTIONS ]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. options optional, main character mandatory 👑

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so, Arctica Greeter is a LightDM greeter for the modern desktop. she's the face you see, the moment before you're let in. iconic behavior fr fr.

she gets run by the LightDM daemon if you've configured her in lightdm.conf. so like, she doesn't just show up uninvited — she's invited, in writing, in a config file. very demure, very mindful.

and listen: she is not normally run by a user. she's not a "type it in your terminal and chill" kind of girl. BUT — and this is the good part — she can run in a test mode with the --test-mode option 🧚

why would you do that? because it lets you test the interface without installing an updated version. so you can peek at the fit before you commit to the whole wardrobe. obsessed, honestly 😭

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v, --version — show the release version. quick little "who am I" check 🪞
• --test-mode — run the greeter in a test mode inside the current X session. lowkey the main event for anyone poking at the UI ✨
• --test-highcontrast — when you're in test mode, run it with a11y highcontrast mode enabled. accessibility stays winning, no cap 🫶
• -?, --help — show help options. the classic "idk what I'm doing" escape hatch 🙈

heads up bestie: --test-highcontrast only does its thing when in test mode. it's a team player, not a solo act.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• lightdm — her ride-or-die. the daemon that launches her. go read that page next, iykyk 💜

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arctica-greeter 🌸 — Version 0.99.9.4, May 2025. that's the whole page bestie, you ate it, periodt 💖✨🎀🦋